A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water farther north. But our new research published ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region recorded 108 gigatons of average ice sheet mass gain per year from ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

James  Witlow  Delano travels to Union Glacier to join scientists revealing how subtle shifts in ice and bedrock, are uncovering the planet’s climate future ...

Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new US Geological Survey report prepared in close collaboration with the British ...

Scientists drilled through Antarctic ice to uncover a buried river system that may reshape predictions of melting and ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, ...

When viewed from space, a very rude glacier in Antarctica was caught stealing ice from its neighbor as it melted from climate ...

The authors behind that study attempted to find such old ice, taking a “debris-rich ice core” measuring 944 centimeters (372 ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass between 2021 and 2023, a dramatic reversal from decades of loss. Four key glacier basins in East Antarctica showed significant growth due to increased snowfall.

like these Adelie penguins near Paulet Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. But what's below the ice these penguins waddle on every day? . | Credit: Patrick J. Endres via Getty Images Almost 90% of ...